Word: twilighter
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...consolation that could be denied from its excellence, and Holy Cross allowing the Crimson stands at least three periods of exultation. William and Mary struck a faster, smoother, keener eleven than Boston newspaper writers had seen for several years. The grand Crimson climax came when French sprinted through the twilight to top the twelve points scored by a far from important Dartmouth team. Last week saw a 69 to 5 snowfall over Tufts, which may prove much or very little...
...very intense, very subtle. A rare woman's whole life is told and her time etched in around her with a touch as sure as it is delicate. It adds immensely to the literature of places as well as of people, particularly with a violet, snow-powdered December twilight in old Madison Square, which once was "like an open-air drawing room." What the work represents spiritually, no reader will soon show another, save that the tragedy of a strong, restrained nature, devoid of falsity or baseness, is a moving thing to watch, to experience...
...Twilight and harvest moon, he too would pray...
...Children of the morningtide With the hosts of noon had died; And our noon contingents lay Dead with twilight's spent array...
...takes childish pride in the sag of his coat and the splay of his collar, what time he gets lost on a golden road to nowhere, beholding faery sights. Shadows are among his specialties. For The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) he invented a whole zone of twilight, where unicorns browsed and cabbage-roots were thunderbolts. Now he writes of a crone, cheated of her shadow by a magician of old Spain, and of a romantic worldling who came to the magician's wood to learn the making of gold for his sister's dowry...